HIST123 - ECONOMIC HIST OF EURO I

Status
O
Activity
LEC
Title (text only)
HIST123 - ECONOMIC HIST OF EURO I
Term
2014C
Syllabus
Subject area
HIST
Section number only
001
Section ID
HIST123001
Registration notes

HUMANITIES & SOCIAL SCIENCE SECTOR

Meeting times
MW 0200PM-0330PM
Meeting location
ANNENBERG SCHOOL 111
Instructors
SAFLEY, THOMAS
Description
This course concentrates on the economy of Europe in the Early Modern Period, 1450-1750. It was a time of great transition. Europe developed from an agriculturally-based to an industrially-based economy, with attendant changes in society and culture. From subsistence-level productivity, the European economy expanded to create great surfeits of goods, with attendant changes in consumption and expectation. Europe grew from a regional economic system to become part--some would say the heart--of a global economy, with attendant changes in worldview and identity. Economic intensification, expansion, globalization, and industrialization are our topics, therefore. Beginning with economic organizations and practices, we will consider how these changed over time and influenced society and culture. The course takes as its point of departure the experience of individual, working men and women: peasants and artisans, merchants and landlords, entrepeneurs and financiers. Yet, it argues outward: from the particular to the general, from the individual to the social, from the local to the global. It will suggest ways in which the economy influenced developments or changes that were not in themselves economic, shaped, and deflected economic life and practice.
Course number only
123
Use local description
No
LPS Course
false
Major Concentrations
Major/Minor Requirements Fulfilled